No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 105 is live!

This week we sit down to talk about Chris Dodson from the 2Lazy2beOtaku podcast about gaming and his new book. The subjects this week are as follows:

“Prey for Vengeance” by Chris Dodson

Everquest I and II – chimps, nerd rage, and pariahs

Dungeons and Dragons Online – insipid names, reincarnation, and game play

Gaming Communities and the “MMO single player experience”

Mobile gaming and the classic gaming experience

Publish it and patch it

Music excerpts:

Benny Goodman/Gene Krupa – Sing sing sing – under introduction

Benny Goodman/Gene Krupa -Avalon 4:20 mark

Gene Krupa – Watch out – 7:00 mark

Gene Krupa – Let me off uptown - 11:14 mark

Gene Krupa – I’m feeling high and happy – 14:45 mark

Gene Krupa – Opus one – 17:55 mark

Benny Goodman – Oh Lady Be Good – 22:27 mark

Benny Goodman sings – Minnie’s in the Money – 44:30 mark

Benny Goodman – After You’ve Gone – 51:52 mark (reprise) 56:22 mark

Benny Goodman – Don’t be that way – under ending

Gene Krupa was born in Chicago. His parents may have wanted him to be a priest, but fate chose him to be one of the most influential musicians of the big band era, eventually leading his own orchestra. One of the most influential drummers in America, he is credited with being one of the first musicians to make the drums a “solo instrument”.

He made his first recordings in the Chicago Style Jazz scene started in 1924 with Bix Beiderbecke. Krupa’s big influences during this time were Tubby Hall and Zutty Singleton. The drummer who probably had the greatest influence on Gene in this period was Baby Dodds, whose use of press rolls was highly reflected in Gene’s playing.

Krupa also appeared on six recordings made by the Thelma Terry band in 1928. In 1934 he joined Benny Goodman’s band, where his featured drum work made him a national celebrity. His tom-tom interludes on their hit ” Sing, Sing, Sing” were the first extended drum solos to be recorded commercially

Benny Goodmanwas also born in Chicago. Known as the “king of swing” he played one of the meanest jazz clarinets to ever grace a stage.

In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as “the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz’s ‘coming out’ party to the world of ‘respectable’ music.”

Goodman’s bands launched the careers of many major names in jazz. During an era of segregation, he led one of the first well known racially-integrated jazz group

Goodman the Jazz Man - Goodman continued his meteoric rise throughout the late 1930s with his big band, his trio and quartet, and a sextet. By the mid-1940s, however, big bands lost a lot of their popularity. By the 1940s, jazz musicians were borrowing advanced ideas from classical music. The recordings Goodman made in bop style for Captip; Records were highly praised by jazz critics. When Goodman was starting a bebop band, he hired Buddy Greco, Zoot Simes, and Wardell Gray.

Been listening to the podcast for quite a while now and just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed it. I have recently joined up to TOG forum and having fun catching up with reading the posts there thanks for recommending it.

Sr. Julie

March 21, 2012 | 11:57 pm

Thanks so much for listening to the show and letting us know you enjoy it. What is more welcome to TOG. If you ever drop by the Star Wars MMO division say hello!

Long time no hear, I have been a long time listener to NPNM, but after loosing my internet for a few months I came back and had not seen an update in my podcasts for some time and thought you all went dark. I am excited to re-establish the listening.

Sr. Julie

March 28, 2012 | 9:15 am

Hi there and welcome back to the fold. We have not gone dark at all. We have, however, changed servers a time or two. When one of our servers started to give us the run around so often we felt like we were in a marathon we stopped doing the early release. That was fortuitous timing because Brent from Virgin Worlds made it so much easier for us to keep our shows up to date so there was no longer a need for an “early release”.